Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Daśaharā) · 2094

Tuesday 19 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 143 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Monday 18 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 19 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

48 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 19:58 on Mon 18 Oct to 17:30 on Tue 19 Oct.

    2094-10-18T11:58:15Z → 2094-10-19T09:29:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 18th, 11:39–12:27 on the 19th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 18th and 48 of 48 on the 19th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 8571 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 2094: Tuesday 19 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2094 falls on Tuesday 19 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 19:58 on Mon 18 Oct to 17:30 on Tue 19 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2094/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 19 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 19 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 19 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Daśamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
First
With Śravaṇa in the day time

“S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 18thCoveredMadhyāhna 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:58 → 02:3012:1448 min12:140 min18 Oct
Chicago06:58 → 04:3012:1248 min12:110 min18 Oct
Jersey City07:58 → 05:3012:1748 min12:170 min18 Oct
Port of Spain07:58 → 05:3011:2748 min11:270 min18 Oct
London12:58 → 10:3012:2111 min12:210 min18 Oct
Durban13:58 → 11:3011:180 min11:1712 min18 Oct
Dubai15:58 → 13:3011:400 min11:4048 min18 Oct
Delhi17:28 → 15:0011:420 min11:4248 min18 Oct
Kolkata17:28 → 15:0010:580 min10:5848 min19 Oct
Singapore19:58 → 17:3012:260 min12:2648 min19 Oct
Sydney22:58 → 20:3012:170 min12:1748 min19 Oct
Suva23:58 → 21:3011:280 min11:2848 min19 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vijaya-dashami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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